he s been our fearless leader for the past several years and helping to direct the symposium. no introduction is needed. it is really too. i will say that she comes to us from the university of saskatchewan to give you a sense of how far yes come today. he is under a visiting professorship on human rights on ae will be speaking nation of immigrants. the keynote is and what opportunity to look, to see the theme in a broader sense. you will be laying the groundwork or everything we will be discussing. he will be laying the groundwork for everything will be talking about. we have a special lunch program that we don t do typically. we will have a speaker join us during lunch tomorrow so we can keep people in the room. we will have boxed lunches and you will enjoy it. if you are suspicious about a living history interpreter does, it is a good chance for you to find out what kind of historians deal with the public directly. these are people who speak to classroom groups, tour group
holocaust as a cultural category, nevertheless was a soldier on behalf of the distressed. we re bringing mikes, so, and if you ll let me know what my time frame is. this may be too narrow a question, but i ll ask it anyway. so, i saw on c-span a while back interviews with bernard ferrenz, who was with the army and worked with holocaust survivors getting restitution. i wondered if you were familiar with his work and if that was connected at all with the congressman? no, i didn t see that. it s fascinating. fascinating. i know the harrison report alone. okay. maybe you could tell me what fascinating. he has his own story, jewish background, and very unhappy being a private in the army when he was an attorney and all those and really single-handedly, there was one other individual in the army who when they went into the camps tried to maintain all of the documentation so that they could pursue. and he followed up at nuremberg. very, very interesting interviews.
was shot five times and left to die. i know what it s like to emotionally and physically deal with those wounds. i m grateful to be alive but i think of the people who died needlessly. reporter: speier brought a bullet to washington. it was a very powerful moment. but not all passersby in redwood city agree with speier. people should have a right to have a gun to protect themselves but it shouldn t be easily accessible. reporting arrive from redwood city, laura malpert, nbc bay area news. tonight police and fire fights are going to be out in full force trying to catch the people setting them off. elyce kirchner has more. reporter: that s despite fireworks actually being banned here in contra costa county. even if you buy them legally and bring them to the area. your best bet is to watch a sanctioned event happening like the ones happening here. you see volunteer behind me getting these fireworks all set up. they re set to launch around 9:00 this evening. jim hall
[drums] you are looking at a funeral procession at arlington national cemetery held in march 8, 2013. the full military honors ceremony is for two civil war sailors that went down the uss monitor ironclad and in 1862 storm up the coast of cape hatteras, north carolina. the remains of the sailors were recovered by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration and the u.s. navy in 2002. in this american artifacts, we will observe the ceremony and learn the history of the monitor and the efforts to identify the remains of the recovered sailors. we spoke after the burial with david alberg, superintendent of the monitor national marine sanctuary. mr. alberg: i m responsible for the daily management and protection and long-range preservation of the shipwreck that was 16 miles off of cape hatteras, north carolina. as well as the artifacts. ultimately my job is about managing the sanctuary which protects the shipwreck, america s first national sanctuary, established in 1975
the remains of the sailors were covered by the national oceanic and atmospheric administration and the u.s. navy in 2002. in this american artifact, we will observe the ceremony and learn the history of the monitor and the efforts to identify the remains of recovered sailors. we spoke after the burial with david hallberg, superintendent of the monitor national marine sanctuary. mr. alberg: i m responsible for the daily management and protection and long-range preservation of the shipwreck that was 16 miles off of cape hatteras, north carolina. ultimately my job is about managing the sanctuary which protects the shipwreck, america s first marine section rate established in 1975 to protect the wreck of the monitor. today ceremony was a culmination of more than a decade s worth of work. it started in 2002 when the remains of two u.s. sailors were recovered from the uss monitor by navy divers. those remains of been in hickam air force base in hawaii at the joint pow mia accountin